# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dana-elcar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:01:36.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dana-elcar"
name: "Dana Elcar"
slug: "dana-elcar"
description: "Ibsen Dana Elcar was an American television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as well as in the 1960s television series Dark Shadows as Sheriff George Patterson and the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, MacGyver's immediate supervisor at the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson before assuming the role of Thornton."
tagline: "American television and movie character actor (1927-2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Dana_elcar.jpg/330px-Dana_elcar.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-10-10"
deathDate: "2005-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.83
  momentum:             0.10740842743046
  historical:           20.93215733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253020/"
    handle:    "nm0253020"
sources:
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    title: "達納·艾卡"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ダナ・エルカー"
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    title: "데이나 엘카"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Элкар, Дана"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڈانا ایلکار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Dana Elcar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump